The expectation of a celebration had been whispered for days, but yesterday it was confirmed at Inditex’s earnings presentation: the Galician company achieved a record profit in 2025, surpassing for the first time 6 billion euros. In the fourth year with Marta Ortega as president, her father, Amancio Ortega, returns to the list of the world’s 10 richest men and becomes the second non-American megamillionaire listed there. The other is Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH.
Attention to the data: while Marta Ortega has frozen her salary (one million euros) in her fourth triumphant year, the company’s top executive and true brain behind operations, Óscar García Maceiras, has raised it by 3%. He pocketed a staggering 11.5 million euros. All a consequence of a 6% increase in profits and a 3.2% rise in sales. Zara remains the best-selling brand, but the one that has grown the most has been Oysho: 15%.
Nothing seems to slow the unstoppable advance of Inditex: although the geopolitical situation may not be tranquil, the pilots of the great Galician textile ship did not show concern about performance in the coming months and, in fact, announced a dividend increase to shareholders. The García Maceiras executive team comes to be the muscle of Zara, while Marta Ortega polishes her image: the way we perceive a family of brands constantly linked to the aspirational. The heiress works with those threads: the threads of dreams.
If dreaming is Marta Ortega’s task, we can dare to analyze it through her materializations. Especially because in 2025 and in the early months of 2026 we have witnessed some interesting novelties regarding the Inditex universe, a cosmos truly expanding. One of the most striking has been her stepping forward in visibility, hand in hand with the only institution to which, to date, the Inditex heiress has chosen to associate herself: the Crown.
The harmony between Marta Ortega and King Felipe
Indeed: only the Crown has managed to pull Marta Ortega out of her well-known anonymity, as a member of the Royal Patronage of the Gallery of the Royal Collections. Last February, in its annual meeting (the second since its establishment), her complicity with King Felipe was evident in a family photo that surprised them chatting and joking. Let us underscore this linkage between the most influential Spanish company and the monarchical institution: only very elitist fashion circles or geniuses of photography had managed to summon Marta.
Marta Ortega y el rey Felipe, el pasado febrero durante la reunión del Real Patronato de la Galería de las Colecciones Reales.
There is something else that the Crown and Inditex have in common and that, perhaps, explains their harmony: an unequivocal intention to plan above the crude reality so that their operations, economic or symbolic, endure. In other words: a certain aspiration to eternity. An idea that seems to underlie much of what Marta Ortega has been proposing from the creative sides: or do not museums and the geniuses who push forward the artistic disciplines want to be eternal?
The intellectual aspiration of Marta Ortega
We are not mistaken: the programming of MOP, the art foundation that Marta Ortega chairs in A Coruña, stops only at the immortals of fashion photography. This same vocation for stability and permanence beats in MOP Library, the library dedicated to the study and research of fashion that has just opened with more than 5,500 documents in its collection. The consumption that previously monopolized Inditex’s experience is now enriched with a new intellectual strand that adds to the MOP Talks, conferences that have hosted Anna Sui, Nick Knight, Penelope Tree or Rodrigo Cortés.
Something must have to do with this theoretical push that the new Inditex headquarters in Sant Adrià de Besòs is named ‘campus’, as if workers attended a university space. It will open partially in 2028 and fully in 2030 and will have offices, pattern-making workshops, pilot stores, audiovisual production spaces, auditorium, corporate restaurant and gym in 164,098 square meters built. Almost a mini-city.
